Amsterdam and a long time between posts
I’m finally getting around to updating Locomotion with a new blog article. Over the past 2 months we’ve been super busy working on our MediaCore Video CMS, and have been concentrating a large amount of our effort into building the platform out.
During this time I’ve also had the opportunity to attend a Masters Photography workshop in Florence Italy with the New York School of Visual Arts in New York. From a photography perspective the course was excellent and I really felt like it deepened my knowledge of both my camera and photographic techniques substantially. I’m definitely looking forward to taking a lot of the material I learned from this course and applying it to all kinds of various client projects; taking the time away from web design to experience a completely new medium has been both refreshing and invigorating creatively.
Once the course wrapped up I was off to the UK to continue working on MediaCore and drum up some more European clients while preparing to deliver a series of speeches at the EuroPython conference in Birmingham. I’ll have to make a separate post in the next couple of days on what I learned in prepping for those presentations, but suffice to say that I learned more about speaking in a week at EuroPython than I had during my entire time at university. Nathan and Anthony also presented and learned a lot from their presentation during the conference. They are now off on some much needed R&R for the next week. Anthony will be spending his time in the north of the UK, while Nathan is off to Paris.
At the moment I’m currently situated in Amsterdam as we pause for a week of work, and am finding that I absolutely love how the city blends 16th-17th century architecture with contemporary interiors. Transportation is good, a beautiful canal structure winds throughout the city, and watching everyone commute to work on bicycles has been pleasantly refreshing. The design scene is well established and I’ve met the teams from Sofa and SoGeo, both of which are running exceptional businesses. I’m looking forward to another few days of exploring Amsterdam, and I’m sure I’ll get a chance to post a few photos.
Everyone will be back in the office by August the 2nd, and we’ll be heartily at work cranking out the next version of MediaCore.
